Somalis All Over
21st August 2011
John Derbyshire surveys the state of diversity.
In Britain, the USA, and the other Anglosphere nations, there seem to be Somalis all over.
Here’s one: Mr. Saeed Khaliif. I should actually have said “here’s ten,” as Mr. Khaliif has a wife and eight children. (Though eight is only our best estimate. No one seems to know the exact number.)
The Khaliifs arrived in Britain three years ago as refugees from Somalia. In their three years of residence, neither has had paid employment, nor have they learned to speak English. What they have mainly spent their time doing is gaming Britain’s welfare system. Most recently they have moved into a seven-bedroom house in tony West Hampstead—Emma Thompson lives nearby. The house is worth $3.2 million. Monthly rent—paid for by British taxpayers—is $13,000.
Here is another Somali, Mrs. Hailmo Bokh of Memphis, Tennessee. “Somalian Woman and 11 Kids Call Memphis Home,” reads the headline.
To America’s shame, Mrs. Bokh and her kids have not been given a seven-bedroom house in an upscale neighborhood, only a three-bedroom apartment in a middling neighborhood. Like the Khaliifs, though, the Bokhs will be fed, clothed, and educated courtesy of native taxpayers. “The Catholic Charities of West Tennessee…will help them get on their feet in Memphis,” says the news story, but that’s disingenuous since: (a) CCWT gets at least half its revenues from government grants (see Part VIII here); and (b) as soon as they can—a few months at most—CCWT hands off refugees to the general welfare system.
August 21st, 2011 at 20:01
Better to let them starve in Somalia, I guess. At least it wouldn’t cost us anything.
August 21st, 2011 at 21:10
AH, it’s the false choice argument again. That’s right, it is either starve in Somalia or be financial invalids completely dependent on tax payers here. There are no other options.
Come on MAAAAAANN!
August 22nd, 2011 at 07:57
So, what option do YOU propose?
Give us the benefit of your deep thoughts on the subject.
August 22nd, 2011 at 13:52
It won’t help Somalia to move Somalians here or to Europe.
If you remember Somalia did not want our help in the 1990’s (and still doesn’t). Look where that got them. The Somalian “government” still does not allow humanitarian organizations into Somalia. Even after their military rejection of official U.S. help we continue to offer help in Kenya where the refugees are fleeing to (about 1500/day). Somalia bit the hand that was trying to feed it. Yet we continue to try.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/food_crisis_in_kenya/
http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/pages/horn-of-africa-famine-2011?open&campaign=113655232&cmp=KNC-113655232
http://www.shoeman.org/volunteer/travel-to-kenya/
Feel free to donate if you like. As a matter of fact, I make that a challenge. I donated $50 to Samaritan’s Purse for the Horn of Africa Project. I challenge you to match or beat my donation.
Otherwise, you have no business requiring anyone else to pay for the abuse of welfare. If you’re not willing to do anything, don’t complain that others aren’t. Even if you are, it’s not the business of the government (us) to provide a living for foreign nationals to come live in relative luxury among us.
Making welfare recipients out of them (and voting liberals) is to make the U.S. = Somalia.
August 22nd, 2011 at 14:29
Send ’em back to Somalia. We aren’t the worlds Day Care Center.
August 22nd, 2011 at 16:18
Let ’em starve, just so we don’t have to pay for them. Check.
You can always count on a conservative for a humane thought.
And Whitehawk, I donated long ago, so you can get off your high horse. I was donating to the Sahel Relief project before you even knew what Sahel meant.
August 22nd, 2011 at 21:44
“And Whitehawk, I donated long ago, so you can get off your high horse. I was donating to the Sahel Relief project before you even knew what Sahel meant.”
I’m impressed. Good work. My point wasn’t to condescend to you. My point was that the government doesn’t have to be involved to make a difference.